Andrew Lichtenstein on the struggle to unionize car wash workers in New York City.
PUBLIC SPHERE ARCHIVE
A Living Wagephotographer |
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US Housing Crisis West 2012photographer |
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GROUND ZERO for the housing crisis in the western United States is in central California, Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada. These three places, more than anywhere else in the country, have felt the backlash of the past decade’s extensive predatory lending and mortgage fraud. Today the housing crisis in the Western states has become [...] |
Crossing the Battleground: Ohiophotographer |
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Stanley Greene spends the last week before the 2012 presidential election in the key swing state of Ohio, with essay by Andrew Meier. |
In the Wake of Hurricane Sandy 2012photographer |
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From the heart of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation three Facing Change photographers – Alan Chin, and Andrew Lichtenstein – relate their stories in the wake of the one of the most devastating storms ever to strike the eastern seaboard. Alan Chin Staten Island, New York, November 2, 2012 The Forster family unwinds after a long day [...] |
Hurricane Sandy by FCDA Photographersphotographer |
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In the immediate aftermath of hurricane Sandy, one of the most devastating storms ever to strike the eastern seaboard, three FCDA photographers – Alan Chin and Andrew Lichtenstein – fanned out across the New York City area to capture scenes of the city in crisis. Chin was on hand as firefighters battled blazes in Breezy [...] |
Brownout in the Electric Cityphotographer |
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Scranton, Pennsylvania almost went bankrupt this summer when the city had less than $5000 left in its accounts. Hundreds of municipal employees, including the mayor and the police and fire departments, went on minimum wage. |
An American Placephotographer |
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Andrew Lichtenstein returns to Nebraska in drought, photographing an American Place. |
The Political Theater Of The Absurdphotographer |
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Lucian Perkins photographs the political theater of the absurd at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this year. |
Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Reform 2012photographer |
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June 28, 2012 On the last day of the Supreme Court’s term for this year, everybody in Washington DC knew that its ruling would be announced on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as the national health care reform law is officially known. So an hour before the Supreme Court [...] |
Wisconsin Recall 2012photographer |
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On Tuesday, June 5, Republican Governor Scott Walker held onto his seat in Wisconsin’s special recall election, beating his Democratic challenger Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee. With 53% of the vote, it was a comfortable victory. Facing Change photographers Andrew Lichtenstein and Carlos Javier Ortiz share their images and observations: Protesters crowding the Capitol grounds [...] |
Memorial Day 2012photographer |
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More than one spectator, fond of this old industrial city which has had its trials the past three decades, said “this is the best parade we’ve had here in 20 years.” The turnout was solid, from high school marching bands to fire departments, police, civic and religious organizations; all of it led by a band [...] |
Chicago’s NATO Protest 2012photographer |
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Chicago police and protesters clashed at demonstrations against the NATO war in Afghanistan, marring otherwise peaceful gatherings. |
FIGHTING BACK Cleveland’s Inner City Boxingphotographer |
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In the heart of inner city Cleveland, Coach Fred Wilson has dedicated himself to turning drug dealers and users into boxers, hoping to give them a positive outlook on life. |
Occupy May Day 2012photographer |
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Facing Change documents May Day Occupy rallies and marches in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and Oakland as tens of thousands of people took to the streets. |
Heavy Metal: America’s Tank Factoryphotographer |
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Lima, Ohio, is home to the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (Lima Army Tank Plant) which is the only heavy armored tank factory in the United States. They build and refurbish Abrams tanks, Stryker armored personnel carriers, and other weapons systems. |
A Mother’s Fight Against Childhood Obesityphotographer |
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Sonya Branch-Johnson remembers a visit to her doctor and watched as he wrote “obese” on her chart. It was a wake-up call. One third of Americans are obese, a dramatic increase over the last twenty years. |
Occupy DC Eviction 2012photographer |
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Early Saturday morning in Washington DC, the police raided the OccupyDC encampment in McPherson Square, two blocks from the White House. |
Flat Liners: Life on Oakland Streets 2012photographer |
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Stanley Greene walked the streets of Oakland, California for nearly two weeks photographing the realities, the dramas, the desolation, and finding a sense of separateness. |
The Caucuses and the Circus 2012photographer |
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It’s long hours and stress, but I enjoy the theater and the quirky aspects in addition to the importance of covering the presidential election. I do want to demystify the political process with my photographs, to show what the process is like. It’s not all polish, and I like to travel around the edges. |
Facing Change: Documenting America 2011photographer |
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This week we present our final update for 2011, a suite of diverse images taken along our journeys this year on the American road. We feel that these photographs speak to the heart of this moment in our country. |
Migrant Workers in Illinois and North Carolinaphotographer |
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Carlos Javier Ortiz documents Mexican migrant workers in the fields of Illinois and North Carolina. He says: “I remember being a kid and watching old black-and-white footage of migrant workers picking fruits and vegetables and working the fields…” |
A Future for Homeless Children 2011photographer |
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Homeless families are increasing at an alarming rate in the United States, with profound effects on millions of American children. One in fifty children experiences homelessness in America each year, according to a recent study by the National Center on Family Homelessness. Nearly half of those children are under the age of six – the most vulnerable group of all. |
Occupy Wall Street Eviction 2011photographer |
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Over the last two months, Occupy Wall Street spread across the nation as each new economic statistic grimly confirms the disparity between rich and poor continuing to grow while unemployment remains high and stagnant. The protesters were initially mocked and denigrated, but public outcry galvanized by pepper spray and mass arrest police tactics added to the persistence and popularity of the movement. The response from local governments has varied from city to city. In New York it was marked by heavy-handedness tempered with reluctant tolerance. |
Landscapes of American Historyphotographer |
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These images are the third, and final, set for FCDA from the self-titled ‘American History Series’. |
The Badlands of South Dakotaphotographer |
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The Badlands of South Dakota are one of the most economically depressed regions in the United States. Though surrounded by commonplace social strife as a result, rich traditional culture survives, since much of the Badlands are part of the Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota. Once led by the legendary war chief Crazy Horse, Pine Ridge is also where some 300 men, women, and children were slaughtered by the 7th Calvary at the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890, the tragic end to the Indian Wars. |
Occupy Wall Street – the Growing Movement 2011photographer |
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As Occupy Wall Street” grows daily both nationally and internationally authorities’ patience with the protests is wearing thin. The New York movement narrowly avoid a police stand off on Friday morning but this was not the case in Denver. The hard question is what next? |
Occupy Wall Street 2011photographer |
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Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing series of demonstrations in New York City based in Zuccotti Park, formerly “Liberty Plaza Park”. The protest was originally called for by the Canadian activist group Adbusters; it took inspiration from the Arab Spring movement (particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo, which initiated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution) and from the Spanish Indignants. |
10th Anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks on Americaphotographer |
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Ten years on, Americans will gather today where the World Trade Center soared, where the Pentagon stands as a fortress once breached, where United Airlines Flight 93 knifed into the earth. |
Losing A Generation “Too Young To Die” 2011photographer |
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A war is underway in the United States today, with the nation’s youth suffering its most devastating consequences. It is an undeclared war, but it is as real and savage as any of the wars that claim the lives of soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. The casualties of this war come from a thousand bloody battles being waged nightly on the neighborhood streets of cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Memphis, and Los Angeles. |
Turmoil on Wall Street August 2011photographer |
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Renewed turmoil battered Asia and Europe, and Wall Street headed for new losses, in the face of rising concern over debt problems and the economy. |
Fourth of July by FCDA photographersphotographer |
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n 1775, people in New England began fighting the British for their independence. On July 2, 1776, the Congress secretly voted for independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was first published two days later on July 4, 1776. |
The Battle For Blair Mountain 2011photographer |
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Environmental activists opposed to mountain top removal lead a fifty mile march to Blair Mountain in an effort to stop plans to strip mine the area. The march route followed the same one taken ninety years ago, in 1921, when union coal miners attempting to rescue fellow workers who were being terrorized by company gun men, marched through the mountains of southern West Virginia. |
Memorial Day 2011photographer |
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Memorial Day Weekend from Coney Island and Prospect Park, Brooklyn to the thousands of Rolling Thunder Bikers packing the National Mall Facing Change photographers Lucian Perkins and Anthony Suau document the annual holiday. |
Ground Zero and the Killing of Osama Bin Ladenphotographer |
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More than 56 million Americans watched on live television as President Obama announced the killing of Osama Bin Laden by a commando raid in Pakistan. Within minutes, people started gathering at the World Trade Center site, Ground Zero. |
Federal Shutdown Avoided 2011photographer |
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After weeks of contentious negotiations between the House and the Senate, a deal was reached to avert a shutdown of the Federal government within an hour of the midnight deadline on Friday April 8. |
An American Landscape: The 150th Anniversary of the Civil Warphotographer |
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An American Landscape: The 150th Anniversary of the Civil War On April 12th, 1861, the first shots of America’s Civil War were fired when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. 150 years is a lot of time, especially for a nation where many citizens’ grandparents had not even arrived yet. And then [...] |
Madison Protests 2011photographer |
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As the streets of Madison, Wisconsin and inside the capitol fill with protesters the country’s eyes are glued to the high emotions that started last Tuesday. |
The New Americansphotographer |
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While the nation continues to focus on illegal immigration as a controversial political issue, every Friday in New York City alone, approximately five hundred people become new American citizens. |
A Detroit Requiem 2010photographer |
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Detroit … the word alone incites many emotions within America’s conscience. Detroit was the epicenter for economic equality in the U.S., the home front for the ideal of well paying jobs for the masses and a political force behind a strong middle class. |
Christmas in Central Texas 2010photographer |
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In December, I photographed the many ways that people decorate their lawns, fences and towns to celebrate the Christmas season. For some it’s a Santa Claus and reindeer; for others, it’s a wreath, a “Peace on Earth” sign, or fireworks; for others still, it’s angels or a crèche. All of this offers a hint to [...] |
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear 2010photographer |
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Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge crowd at the “Rally to Restore Sanity” and “Keep Fear Alive” to poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers. |
Moving America Forward 2010photographer |
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People attend a rally “Moving America Forward” for Democratic candidates as the November elections come to a close. President Barack Obama. |
BP Gulf Oil Spill 2010photographer |
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My heart sank when BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well burned and sank, unleashing the biggest oil spill in our country’s history. |
Detroit – Food Bank 2010photographer |
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Once known as the world’s automotive center, Detroit was the home of 1.85 million people in the 1950s. Its population is now 951,000 and there are an estimated 80,000 abandoned buildings within the city. |
Obesity, Washington DC 2010photographer |
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My long-term project on obesity begins here in Washington DC, partly because a manipulation in the country’s original laws and institutions has contributed to the epidemic. |
September 11 and 12, 2010photographer |
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The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, in Lower Manhattan. |
American History Project 2010photographer |
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I’m working on a series of landscape photographs that deal with American history. With a camera, I’m interested in exploring Americans’ relationship with their own history. |
Katrina Then And Now 2010photographer |
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Revisiting the same places in New Orleans, five years after the storm. So much remains to be rebuilt, yet that may never happen. |
Katrina Five Years 2010photographer |
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Stanley Greene returns to New Orleans for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. |
Arizona Immigration Bill 2010photographer |
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Controversy over the Arizona Immigration Bill, which would require police to determine the status of people they stopped and suspected were in the country illegally. |
Changing Landscapesphotographer |
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Remote Area Medical Serves a Rural Virginia Community 2010photographer |
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Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical, piloted his DC-3 into Wise, Virginia, to lead a free medical clinic supported by hundreds of volunteer doctors, dentist, nurses, students and other health professionals. Nearly 3,000 people showed up for medical needs at the three-day clinic. “I just look at these people and I hurt,” said volunteer [...] |
Combating Violence 2010photographer |
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Pastor Phil Jackson walks the streets with his young church members who volunteer to talk to teens and young men on the west side of Chicago. |
Workers Day March Turns Anti-Arizona Immigration Event 2010photographer |
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An annual Workers Day march in Chicago turned into an anti-Arizona event as participants railed against that state’s new immigration law. |
Chicago Housing Projects 2009photographer |
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In 2009 President Barack Obama allocated $13.6 billion to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for affordable housing and community development. |
Robeson High 50-50 2008photographer |
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Students at Robeson High live in one of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods, Englewood. It is also one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city with a median income of $18,955. |
Las Vegas Boom and Bustphotographer |
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Las Vegas, Nevada April 2008 Tourists decide where to go next on the Las Vegas Strip, famed for its hotels, casinos, and resorts. |
The Deep Southphotographer |
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Change comes slowly, or seemingly not at all in these overlooked communities. In much of the Deep South, history hangs heavy. |
Too Young to Diephotographer |
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Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Nearly seven years to the day that Fakhur Uddin came to America from Bangladesh, he was slain and found bound with duct tape and string, shot in the head, and left in the back room of the East Germantown gift and sundry store that he was minding for his ailing father. Here, [...] |
The Gulf Coastphotographer |
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New Orleans, Louisiana September 2005 Hurricane Katrina an Unnatural Disaster, Ninth Ward under water. |
Crystal’s Strugglephotographer |
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Washington, DC USA 1992 Born with a disease that destroyed her intestines, one-year-old Crystal needed a liver and intestine transplant in order to survive. But the operation would cost at least $500,000 and her insurance would not pay for it. As her mother, Bridgette, and doctors tried to find ways to pay for the operation, [...] |
Driftlessphotographer |
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South Dakota John Neumann spends the afternoon working on his pickup truck. Neumann, a horse and cattle rancher, endured eight-straight years of draught in southwestern South Dakota, only to be challenged by high fuel costs once the rainfall improved in 2008. |
Never Coming Homephotographer |
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Hughson, California March 22, 2006 A Marine honor guard practices carrying the casket before the military funeral of Bunny Long, who was killed in Anbar Province, Iraq, on March 10th, 2006. |
